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I find myself turning on "Verbatim Mode" for almost all of my searches. Seemingly Google is being "helpful" by removing large chunks of my search query, so as

I find myself turning on "Verbatim Mode" for almost all of my searches. Seemingly Google is being "helpful" by removing large chunks of my search query, so as I can more specific, Google just throws all of that out and I get the same junk SEO results. You can go back to Old Google, but going Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim. This is NOT the same thing as quoting your entire query, it just doesn't let Google simply drop 50% of your query's words.

paleotrope 4y ago
It boggles that someone thought that dropping a keyword from a search was a good idea. "You are looking for product x in relation to situation y" "Here are the results for product x!"
- Filligree 4y ago
  It isn’t a keyword search in the first place. Your query gets fed through a NLP AI, so you need to use English.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    I suspect the use of NLP AI is the primary reason for Google's decline.